Identification

IDNO

COL_1964_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Title

XIII National Population and II Housing Census 1964 - IPUMS Subset

Countries

Name

Code

Colombia

COL

Study notes

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Version

Version

Version 6.4. The datasets contain selected variables from the original census microdata plus harmonized variables from the IPUMS-International database.

In v6.4, the research team continued to carry out improvements to geography, providing harmonized geographic units for the second administrative level for roughly half the countries. More information about IPUMS geography variables is available <a href='https://international.ipums.org/international/geography_variables.shtml'>here</a>. Also, approximately 100 integrated variables were renamed. Affected variables with their current and previous names are listed <a href='https://international.ipums.org/international/resources/misc_docs/renamed_variables_sept2015.pdf'>here</a>. Geography variable also underwent wholesale renaming.

In this update, IPUMS added 19 new samples for Armenia, Austria, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Mozambique, Paraguay, Portugal, Puerto Rico, South Africa, and Spain. Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Paraguay were newly added countries to IPUMS. Samples for other countries extend pre-existing series for those countries.

Version date

2016-04-25

Scope

Topics

Topic

Vocab

Technical Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD

IPUMS

Group Quarters Variables -- HOUSEHOLD

IPUMS

Geography: Global Variables -- HOUSEHOLD

IPUMS

Geography: A-L Variables -- HOUSEHOLD

IPUMS

Technical Person Variables -- PERSON

IPUMS

Demographic Variables -- PERSON

IPUMS

Nativity and Birthplace Variables -- PERSON

IPUMS

Education Variables -- PERSON

IPUMS

Work Variables -- PERSON

IPUMS

Migration Variables -- PERSON

IPUMS

Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON

IPUMS

Work: Industry Variables -- PERSON

IPUMS

Coverage

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Unit of analysis

Dwelling

UNITS IDENTIFIED:
- Dwellings: Not available in microdata sample
- Vacant units: Not available in microdata sample
- Households: Not available in microdata sample
- Individuals: Yes
- Group quarters: Microdata sample includes individuals in group quarters, but are not identified
- Special populations: People in transit included in microdata sample

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS:
- Dwellings: Separated space with independent access that serves as a human lodging
- Group quarters: Group of persons who share a common roof and food because of work, health, religion, etc.

Universe

Population census included people in territories, sailors, diplomats and their families. The indigenous population residing in remote areas was not enumerated.

Producers and sponsors

Authoring entity

Name

Affiliation

Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE)

Minnesota Population Center

University of Minnesota

Sampling

Sampling procedure

MICRODATA SOURCE: Centro Latinoamericano de Demografia (CELADE)

SAMPLE DESIGN: Systematic sample of every 50th individual after a random start. Drawn by DANE from the original census enumeration forms.

SAMPLE UNIT: Individual

SAMPLE FRACTION: 2%

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 349,652

Response rate

COVERAGE: 98.2%

Data Collection

Dates of collection

Start

End

1964-06-25

1964-09-15

Time period(s)

Start

End

1964-07-15

1964-07-15

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Data collection supervision

Direct enumeration. Beginning with the census of 1964, Colombia has relied on high school students as enumerators.

Questionnaires

A single form was used for the entire country. It requested information about buildings, dwellings, households and individuals.

Data access

Access authorities

Name

Affiliation

URI

IPUMS International

Minnesota Population Center

http://international.ipums.org

metadata.study_desc.data_access.dataset_use.conf_dec

IPUMS-International distributes integrated microdata of individuals and households only by agreement of collaborating national statistical offices and under the strictest of confidence. Before data may be distributed to an individual researcher, an electronic license agreement must be signed and approved.
To gain access to the data, a researcher must agree to the following:
(1) Implement security measures to prevent unauthorized access to census microdata. Under IPUMS-International agreements with collaborating agencies, redistribution of the data to third parties is prohibited.
(2) Use the microdata for the exclusive purposes of scholarly research and education. Researchers must explicitly agree to not use microdata acquired for any commercial or income-generating venture.
(3) Maintain the confidentiality of persons, households, and other entities. Any attempt to ascertain the identity of persons or households from the microdata is prohibited. Alleging that a person or household has been identified is also prohibited.
(4) Report all publications based on these data to IPUMS-International, which will in turn pass the information on to the relevant national statistical agencies.
Once a project is approved, a password is issued and data may be acquired through the Internet. Penalties for violating the license include: revocation of the license, recall of all microdata acquired, filing of a motion of censure to the appropriate professional organizations, and civil prosecution under the relevant national or international statutes.
These safeguards mirror the principles from the Joint ECE/Eurostat Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality. Employees of the Minnesota Population Center who work with the census microdata to produce the harmonized database also sign agreements to respect the confidentiality of the data.
IPUMS-International works with each country's statistical office to minimize the risk of disclosure of respondent information. The details of the confidentiality protections vary across countries, but in all cases, names and detailed geographic information are suppressed and top-codes are imposed on variables such as income that might identify specific persons. In addition, IPUMS-International uses a variety of technical procedures to enhance confidentiality protection. These include the following:
(1) Swapping an undisclosed fraction of records from one administrative district to another to make positive identification of individuals impossible.
(2) Randomizing the placement of households within districts to disguise the order in which individuals were enumerated or the data processed.
(3) Aggregating codes of sensitive characteristics (e.g., grouping together very small ethnic categories)
(4) Top- and bottom-coding continuous variables to prevent identification of extreme cases.
The safety record for public-use census microdata is apparently perfect. In almost four decades of use, there has not been a single verified breach of statistical confidentiality. The measures implemented by the IPUMS-International are designed to extend this record.

Access conditions

An adapted version of the dataset, harmonized for international comparability, is available from IPUMS-International (https://international.ipums.org/international/) under the following conditions:

IPUMS-International distributes integrated microdata of individuals and households only by agreement of collaborating national statistical offices and under the strictest of confidence. Before data may be distributed to an individual researcher, an electronic license agreement must be signed and approved. To gain access to the data, a researcher must agree to the following:

(1) Implement security measures to prevent unauthorized access to census microdata. Under IPUMS-International agreements with collaborating agencies, redistribution of the data to third parties is prohibited.

(2) Use the microdata for the exclusive purposes of scholarly research and education. Researchers must explicitly agree to not use microdata acquired for any commercial or income-generating venture.

(3) Maintain the confidentiality of persons, households, and other entities. Any attempt to ascertain the identity of persons or households from the microdata is prohibited. Alleging that a person or household has been identified is also prohibited.

(4) Report all publications based on these data to IPUMS-International, which will in turn pass the information on to the relevant national statistical agencies.

Once a project is approved, a password is issued and data may be acquired through the Internet. Penalties for violating the license include: revocation of the license, recall of all microdata acquired, filing of a motion of censure to the appropriate professional organizations, and civil prosecution under the relevant national or international statutes.

These safeguards mirror the principles from the Joint ECE/Eurostat Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality. Employees of the Minnesota Population Center who work with the census microdata to produce the harmonized database also sign agreements to respect the confidentiality of the data.

Citation requirements

Minnesota Population Center. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International: Version 6.4 [dataset]. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2015. http://doi.org/10.18128/D020.V6.4.

Researchers should also acknowledge the statistical agency that originally produced the data:
Colombia, Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), XIII National Population and II Housing Census

The licensing agreement for use of IPUMS-International data requires that users supply IPUMS-International with the title and full citation for any publications, research reports, or educational materials making use of the data or documentation.

Copies of such materials are also gratefully received at ipums@umn.edu.

Printed matter should be sent to:
IPUMS-International
Minnesota Population Center
University of Minnesota
50 Willey Hall
225 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

- v6.4 April 2016
Documentation of census data and harmonized variables as found in IPUMS-International. The International Household Survey Network (IHSN) contracted IPUMS International for generating DDI and Dublin Core-compliant metadata related to population and housing census datasets from developing countries. The objective was to provide countries with detailed metadata in a format compatible with the DDI standard used by most of these countries, with a view to guarantee the preservation of the data and metadata, and the publishing of metadata.

The intellectual rights (including copyright) for the data and metadata in IPUMS are retained by the countries under a Memorandum of Understanding with the contributing countries. IPUMS-International has distribution rights to the metadata and data. The XML documents generated by this process are viewed as a distribution of the metadata.

Fields edited by the World Bank are: DDI ID and study ID to match World Bank study naming convention, as well as DDI Document Version and Version Description to reflect changes included in version 6.4.

Previous version documented in the World Bank Microdata Library:
- v6.3 (August 2014)